Who comes when the world goes Code Blue? A novel method of exploring job advertisements for COVID-19 in health care.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To explore the health workforce responses to COVID-19.

Design

Analysis of job advertisements.

Methods

We collected advertisements for healthcare jobs which were caused by and in response to COVID-19 between 4 March-17 April 2020 for the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. We collected information on the date of the advertisement, position advertised and location. We categorized job positions into three categories: frontline, coordination and decision support.

Results

We found 952 job advertisements, 72% of which were from the United States. There was a lag period between reported COVID-19-confirmed cases and job advertisements by several weeks. Nurses were the most advertised position in every country. Frontline workers were su

SUBMITTER: Watts RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9632666 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature